Discover the Best Audio Stories in Biography & Memoir

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738473 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Orchard: A Memoir Author: Adele Crockett Robertson Narrator: Alexandra Cohler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 56 minutes Release date: February 13, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A stirring memoir of a young, single woman's laborious struggle to save her family's New England apple farm from going under during the Great Depression. The Orchard is a poignant memoir of a young woman's single-handed struggle to save her New England farm in the depths of the Great Depression. Discovered by the author's daughter after the author's death, it tells the story of Adele 'Kitty' Robertson, young and energetic, but unprepared by her Radcliffe education for the rigors of apple farming in those bitter years of the early 1930s. Alone at the end of a country road, with only a Great Dane for company, plagued by debts, broken machinery, and killing frosts, Kitty revives the old orchard after years of neglect. Every day is a struggle, but every day she is also rewarded by the beauty of the world and the unexpected kindness of neighbors and hired workers. Animated by quiet courage and simple goodness, The Orchard is a deeply moving celebration of decency and beauty in the midst of grim prospects and crushing poverty. In addition to a foreword and epilogue by Betsy Robertson Cramer, the author's daughter, this edition includes a new afterword by award-winning author Jane Brox.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/740665 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Grief and Grit(s): A Daughter's Journey of Love and Loss When the World Was Upside-Down Author: Marsha Gray Hill Narrator: Marsha Gray Hill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date: February 13, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Marsha Gray Hill’s Grief and Grit(s) is an emotional odyssey that illuminates the complexities of grief, while offering a beacon of hope and inspiration for those navigating their own journeys of loss. This extraordinary memoir serves as a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of love to transcend even the darkest of times. In times of unprecedented panic, we see what we’re really made of. Though the worldwide pandemic affected each of us differently, this time of turmoil brought one thing into stark clarity: the value of human life. When tragedy begets triaging and certain demographics are seen as more disposable than others, what does that say about our society? And what does it say about us? This is a story about America, about how we view the most vulnerable people in our society—our aging and elderly—both in times of crisis and in our everyday lives. This is also a story about a mother and daughter, of a mother raising her daughter in love, faith, and confidence, then the bizarre role-reversal as that mother deteriorated to the helplessness of a child. Nothing can prepare you for that intensity of sorrow and joy. Nothing can prepare you for what happens when the coroner refuses to show up and pronounce your mother legally dead, either. In this stunning debut, author Marsha Hill invites you into a personal look at an uncomfortable truth: how we treat our elderly today defines our own future. Full of tragedy and triumph, laughter and tears, grief and—yes, some good, old-fashioned grits—Grief and Grit(s) is not only a reflection of the life and tragic death of Adaline Gray, but the power of our generation to fight for human dignity at every stage of life.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/728597 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them Author: Sue Hubbell Narrator: Lauren Deporre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 49 minutes Release date: January 30, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Weaving a vivid portrait of her own life and her bees’ lives, Sue Hubbell lovingly describes the ins and outs of beekeeping on her small Missouri farm, where the end of one honey season is the start of the next. With three hundred hives, Hubbell stays busy year-round tending to the bees and harvesting their honey, a process that is as personally demanding as it is rewarding. Exploring the progression of both the author and the hive through the seasons, this is “a book about bees to be sure, but it is also about other things: the important difference between loneliness and solitude; the seasonal rhythms inherent in rural living; the achievement of independence; the accommodating of oneself to nature” (Philadelphia Inquirer). Beautifully written and full of exquisitely rendered details, it is a tribute to Hubbell’s wild hilltop in the Ozarks and of the joys of living a complex life in a simple place.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/717460 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dear Oliver: An unexpected friendship with Oliver Sacks Author: Susan R. Barry Narrator: Rengin Altay, Jonathan Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 36 minutes Release date: January 30, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'A must-read for all the people who loved Oliver Sacks's books. The ending made me cry' -- Temple Grandin 'Dear Dr. Sacks . . . You asked me if I could imagine what the world would look like when viewed with two eyes. I told you that I thought I could . . . But, I was wrong.' When Susan Barry first wrote to Oliver Sacks, she never expected a response, let alone the deep friendship that blossomed over ten years of letters. Sue, herself a neuroscientist, wrote to share an extraordinary development in her own medical history. Born with problems with her vision, Sue had been told she would never acquire the ability to see in 3D - and yet she did, a development at odds with decades of research. Within days, Oliver replied, 'Your letter fills me with amazement and admiration.' Sharing an interest in visual perception and a deep love of science, Sue and Oliver began writing back and forth, delving deeper into the mysteries of sight and marvelling at the adaptive capacity of the human body. But in a painful twist of fate, as Sue's vision improved, Oliver's declined, and his characteristic typed letters shifted to handwritten ones. Sue later recognised this to be an early sign of the cancer that ultimately ended his extraordinary life. A funny, fascinating, and intimate glimpse of the great Oliver Sacks, Dear Oliver is also a love letter to scientific inquiry, and a testimony to the power of friendship at any time in life.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/728463 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cassoulet Confessions: Food, France, Family and the Stew That Saved My Soul Author: Sylvie Bigar Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 58 minutes Release date: January 30, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Cassoulet Confessions is an enthralling memoir by award-winning food and travel writer Sylvie Bigar that reveals how a simple journalistic assignment sparked a culinary obsession and transcended into a quest for identity. Set in the stunning southern French countryside, this honest and poignant memoir conveys hunger for authentic food and a universal hunger for home. In Cassoulet Confessions, Sylvie travels across the Atlantic from her home in New York to the origin of cassoulet—the Occitanie region of Southern France. There she immerses herself in all things cassoulet: the quintessential historic meat and bean stew. From her first spoonful, she is transported back to her dramatic childhood in Geneva, Switzerland, and finds herself journeying through an unexpected rabbit hole of memories. Not only does she discover the deeper meanings of her ancestral French cuisine, but she is ultimately transformed by having to face her unsettling, complex family history. Sylvie's simple but poetic prose immerses us in her story: we smell the simmering aromas of French kitchens, empathize with her family dilemmas, and experience her internal struggle to understand and ultimately accept herself.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/733584 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tea on the Blue Sofa Author: Natasha Illum Berg Narrator: Natasha Illum Berg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 12 minutes Release date: January 30, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A compelling and poetic deep dive into the intricacies of a love cut short, 'Tea on the blue Sofa' dissects Natasha Illum Berg's reflections on her childhood in Sweden and her life in Africa. This autobiographical love letter is an ode to the beauty and brutality of life in which Natasha tries to come to terms with the violent loss of her great love. ©2024 Natasha Illum Berg (P)2024 Saga Egmont Natasha Illum Berg (b. 1971) is an author, hunter, and conservationist known for her debut novel 'Floder af Rød' released in 1999 and her advocacy for African elephant protection through the Ivory Black Foundation.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/733583 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All Will Be Well: Letters to My Daughter Author: Natasha Illum Berg Narrator: Natasha Illum Berg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 39 minutes Release date: January 30, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In a series of letters addressed to her daughter, Natasha Illum Berg reflects on her child's forthcoming journey into a world of love, death, and big game hunting. A gorgeous and powerful introduction to the beauty and brutality of the cycle of life, 'All Will Be Well: Letters to My Daughter' poetically examines life's greater values. ©2024 Natasha Illum Berg (P)2024 Saga Egmont Natasha Illum Berg (b. 1971) is an author, hunter, and conservationist known for her debut novel 'Floder af Rød' released in 1999 and her advocacy for African elephant protection through the Ivory Black Foundation.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/731355 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Godfather Of British Crime Author: Freddie Foreman Narrator: Nick Reynolds Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 15 minutes Release date: January 25, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: To Britain's criminal underworld, Freddie Foreman is the Godfather. Held responsible for the gangland killings of Ginger Marks and Frank 'The Mad Axeman' Mitchell, he was the punisher to those who broke the underworld's strict code of conduct. Foreman's dramatic kidnap and arrest for Britain's biggest cash robbery made headlines around the world, yet this daring raid was just the peak of the safe-blowing, bank-robbing career that spanned decades. His story is a fascinating, yet chilling account of life as a freelance enforcer for the Kray twins, and as London's most feared gangster. Bloodshed aside, Freddie's often humorous stories reveal a caring man who believes that violence is a last resort and who always treated people with respect. Revealed in these pages are the amazing details of the heists, the double crossings, the shoot-outs and the betrayals that accompanied life as a career criminal when the streets were controlled by fear. Exposed are the audacious plans behind the century's most famous crimes, the damning evidence of police corruption and the eye-opening events that gave Freddie this most revered reputation. Narrated for you by his own godson, Nick Reynolds.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/722653 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Speak of It: A Memoir Author: Marcos Mcpeek Villatoro Narrator: Marcos Mcpeek Villatoro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 56 minutes Release date: January 23, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In Speak of It, Marcos McPeek Villatoro explores how he channeled his Latino roots to come to terms with the childhood sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of a relative in his home in Appalachia, and he recounts his ensuing struggle with trauma and mental illness. The son of a Salvadoran mother and Scotch Irish mechanic father, Marcos spent much of his life trying to break away from his Southern Appalachian past and the trauma experienced there and striving to get closer to his Salvadoran heritage. His journey includes steeping himself in the Spanish language and Latin American literature, especially the work of Gabriel García Marquez; a stint in Nicaragua with Witness for Peace, followed by missionary work in Guatemala; and social-justice work with Mexican migrant farmworkers in Alabama. Each experience brought him closer to understanding where he came from and to forging an identity as a whole self in the wake of trauma. Riveting, horrifying, moving, and inspiring, Speak of It is a testament to the healing power of language, books, and identity.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/720256 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Squeaky Wheels: Travels with My Daughter by Train, Plane, Metro, Tuk-tuk and Wheelchair Author: Suzanne Kamata Narrator: Sanya Simmons Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release date: January 23, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Squeaky Wheels: Travels with my Daughter by Train, Plane, Metro, Tuk-tuk and Wheelchair is a mother-daughter travel memoir woven with comparative culture and accessibility awareness. Kamata's adventures with her teen—who happens to be deaf, with cerebral palsy, and in a wheelchair—through subterranean Tennessee, to the islands of Japan, and to the top of the Eiffel Tower ultimately lead to a daughter's increasing independence, a mother letting go of expectations, and advocacy for travel which prohibits discrimination.